Leadership is determined by blood and iron. Prussia had destroyed Denmark 2 years before. Prussia destroyed Austria, and created the German Empire ...

Superior training, and very superior rifles (much higher rate of fire). Later France got the same rough treatment. Germany was like Israel vs Arabs.

Hitler fulfilled this Bismark dream of unification. Of course there were many German immigrants in the Ukraine so ....

Under History section ... more info ...

You sure do worship dictators and armies to control governments. Leadership is NOT determined by "blood and iron". Control might be, but that is not "leadership". A lunatic with a gun in a small room may have "control", but that person is not a "leader".

You sure do worship dictators and armies to control governments. Leadership is NOT determined by "blood and iron". Control might be, but that is not "leadership". A lunatic with a gun in a small room may have "control", but that person is not a "leader".

You worship primitive tribes (who also fight each other) and who end up on reservations or extinct?

I am being counter-narrative ... the Germans did nothing wrong, other than lose. They did lots of dumb and cruel things that led to a loss.

And I see nothing wrong with the German Empire under Bismarck. He invented social security first, long before FDR.

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